Word: fared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season Broadway productions are usually of the "Blossom Time" or "light summer fare" school. This year's June audiences, though, are being given a preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...
...Bill of Fare. Summer boarders at Peggy's eat well. For breakfast there are bacon & eggs, toast, marmalade or jam, home-made bread or rolls, home-made butter, and coffee. The noon meal, the biggest of the day, offers steak or fried haddock, cod or halibut (taken out of the water a few hours earlier), cream-topped pies. The evening meal starts off with native clam or fish chowder, followed by a roast, hot rolls, more pie. Board and keep run from $15 to $17 a week...
From the flying cowboy on the cover (see cut) to the gag cartoons in the back of the book, the Saturday Evening Post had changed a lot in 18 years, and generally for the better. There was more fact than fiction on the bill of fare, and the helpings were smaller. Of the ten articles, not one explained a tycoon's secret of success in terms of sobriety, thrift and an 18-hour day. The dowdy "Post Old Style" type was long since gone; clean-cut Bodoni dressed the pages. Up front the hors d'oeuvres included...
...Freshmen didn't fare so well, dropping a close 5 to 4 decision to the Indian yearlings...
...Invalides, France's highest military decoration, the Médaille Militaire, and with it the traditional perquisites: the right to an annual tobacco allowance of 200 francs ($1.65) and the privilege of billing the President of France for transportation in the event of illness (for instance, cab fare home if he became intoxicated...